Thought Leadership Club Workshop 'Planning For Water'

Start Date

23.01.2018

End Date

23.01.2018

This meeting involves a partnership between the Town and Country Planning Association’s Raynsford Review of Planning, TWENTY65 and BEGIN to bring an opportunity for stakeholders concerned about water management to contribute to the Raynsford Review 2018.

Identify further opportunities to get involved in the TWENTY65 research

What is this Meeting about?

Flood Risk Management Plans, Water Resource Management Plans and River Basin Management Plans provide a plethora of processes through which organisations plan how to manage water. But water cannot be managed in isolation from the land and properties it flows across, over and through. How could or should land use planning help deliver better and more sustainable water systems?

Why now?

England is still becoming acquainted with a heavily deregulated planning system. Since 2010, when planning legislation was first relaxed to accommodate housing growth, there have been complaints from both the private and public sector that the system is unsustainable.

The UK Town and Country Planning Association has instituted the Raynsford Review seeking to provide practical and comprehensive policy guidance to overcome these issues in a way that is mutually beneficial to all stakeholders. The review seeks to identify “how the Government can reform the English planning system to make it fairer, better resourced and capable of producing quality outcomes, while still encouraging the production of new homes”. Chaired by former labour planning minister Nick Raynsford, the review has been collating evidence since June 2017 with the aim of generating a report to bring to all party conferences in 2018. (See https://www.tcpa.org.uk/raynsford-review for more details). This thought leadership club offers the opportunity for water sector professionals and activists to contribute to this far reaching review of the UK’s land-use planning system